06.29.07
Yi goes to Bucks as No. 6 pick
The Milwaukee Bucks took Yi Jianlian as the sixth pick in the NBA draft on Thursday night, making him the fourth Chinese to enter the league.
“I played for a national team for a couple of years, I think I’m ready,” Yi said after he was chosen.
Sports writer Michael Hunt of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is less reserved about Yi’s potential: He says the team is “taking the absolute best player available, not looking back and making the bold move that this franchise needed in the 2007 NBA draft.” Full article here.